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September - March - The 'Phoney' War
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Britain, France, Australia and new Zealand declear war on Germany
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Soviet Union invades eastern Poland
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Soviet Union invades Finland
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Germany begins occupation of Denmark and invades Norway.
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Germany invades Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.
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British Prime Minister, Chamberlain, resigns, replaced by Winston Churchill.
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German army enters Paris.
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Start of Battle of Britain.
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Germany, Italy and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
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German Afrika Korps begins offensive in North Africa.
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Soviets and Japenese sign neutrality pact.
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Germany invades Soviet Union.
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German attacks Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union.
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Japenese attacks on Pearl Harbour
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Japanese declear war on USA.
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Allies (except Soviets) declear war on Japan.
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Singapore falls to Japanese.
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Darwin bombed by the Japanese.
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Battle of Midway between Japan and the USA.
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Australians fight the Japanese at Kokoda
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Battle of El Alamein begins, in which allied troops led by Australians defeat the Germans.
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German surrender at Stalingrad.
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Surrender of Axis forces in North Africa.
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Allied landings in Sicily.
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Mussolini's Italian Fascist government overthrown.
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Italy signs armmistice.
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Soviets advance into Poland.
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Rome captured by Allies.
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Operation Overload (D-Day) - Allied invasion of Normandy.
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german assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
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Allies liberate Paris.
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Surrender of Axis forces in Greece.
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French captured Stasbourg.
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German attack through Ardennes - Battle of the Bulge begins.
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Soviets liberate Auschwitz.
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US landings on Iwo Jima.
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Soviets enter Berlin.
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Mussolini captured by partisans and executed.
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Hitler commits suicide.
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German unconditional surrender.
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Atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima.
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Japanese surrender.
